Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 273 287
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 -81
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 471 564 562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.05% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.16% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 213 286 362
10th Percentile £41,363 £46,250 £45,088
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,047 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -7.14% -1.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £129,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,814 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 418 £70,024 +3.10% 348
London +77 239 £85,000 +9.68% 103
UK excluding London -61 175 £62,500 -3.57% 315
Work from Home +15 172 £75,000 +15.38% 156
South East -16 53 £58,750 -9.62% 109
North of England -9 40 £75,000 +11.11% 54
Midlands -25 38 £62,250 -0.40% 41
West Midlands -4 25 £57,500 -9.80% 15
Yorkshire +4 23 £75,000 +15.38% 26
North West -4 16 £75,000 +7.14% 20
South West -21 16 £62,500 -3.29% 39
East of England +28 13 £67,000 -7.59% 40
Northern Ireland -2 11 £75,000 +26.20% 4
East Midlands -31 11 £80,000 +33.33% 25
Wales +9 4 £53,750 -16.16% 14
Scotland -4 3 £42,000 -29.33% 20
North East +2 1 - - 8

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.61%) Confluence
2 6 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.64%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) CICS
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) MTS
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.85%) Trello
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (3.18%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.85%) Shopify
5 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.29%) SaaS
2 49 (10.40%) Azure
3 47 (9.98%) AWS
4 22 (4.67%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.40%) GCP
7 14 (2.97%) PaaS
8 13 (2.76%) GitHub
8 13 (2.76%) Pulumi
9 11 (2.34%) H2O.ai
9 11 (2.34%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.27%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.85%) Collibra
12 4 (0.85%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.42%) Figma
14 2 (0.42%) Google Ads
14 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.03%) Broadband
2 10 (2.12%) HTTP
3 8 (1.70%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.49%) WAN
5 6 (1.27%) LAN
5 6 (1.27%) RTP
6 5 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.06%) Wireless
7 4 (0.85%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.64%) 5G
8 3 (0.64%) Multicast
9 2 (0.42%) ATM
10 1 (0.21%) 4G
10 1 (0.21%) GPRS
10 1 (0.21%) Intranet
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) Modbus
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) SAN
10 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.10%) Relational Database
2 20 (4.25%) Power BI
3 19 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.82%) Metadata
4 18 (3.82%) RDBMS
5 12 (2.55%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.70%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.27%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.06%) Tableau
9 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.64%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.42%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Big Data
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 30 (6.37%) JIRA
2 13 (2.76%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.85%) ERwin
4 3 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 174 (36.94%) Finance
1 174 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 106 (22.51%) Marketing
3 88 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.77%) Banking
5 43 (9.13%) Legal
6 36 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (7.01%) Retail
8 31 (6.58%) Financial Institution
9 24 (5.10%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.88%) Law
11 21 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (4.46%) Public Sector
12 17 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (3.40%) Electronics
13 16 (3.40%) Telecoms
14 15 (3.18%) Digital Economy
15 11 (2.34%) Publishing
16 10 (2.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (28.03%) Product Manager
2 71 (15.07%) Lead
3 59 (12.53%) Senior
4 31 (6.58%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.88%) Product Owner
6 22 (4.67%) Product Lead
6 22 (4.67%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (4.03%) Product Management Director
8 17 (3.61%) Digital Product Manager
9 16 (3.40%) Change Manager
10 15 (3.18%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.55%) Data Manager
11 12 (2.55%) Developer
12 11 (2.34%) Architect
13 10 (2.12%) Development Engineer
13 10 (2.12%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.12%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.12%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.12%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.25%) REST
2 14 (2.97%) YAML
3 13 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (2.34%) Keras
4 11 (2.34%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.34%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.06%) .NET
5 5 (1.06%) EDI
5 5 (1.06%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.06%) Flask
6 4 (0.85%) JSON
6 4 (0.85%) Node.js
6 4 (0.85%) OAuth
6 4 (0.85%) SAML
6 4 (0.85%) SOAP
6 4 (0.85%) XML
7 3 (0.64%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.99%) Product Ownership
2 57 (12.10%) Onboarding
3 33 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.91%) Social Media
8 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.49%) IoT
8 7 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.06%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.61%) Linux
2 13 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (0.85%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (50.74%) Roadmaps
2 195 (41.40%) Agile
3 135 (28.66%) Product Roadmap
4 117 (24.84%) Product Strategy
5 107 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 75 (15.92%) Analytics
9 74 (15.71%) User Experience
10 73 (15.50%) AI
11 71 (15.07%) Mentoring
12 68 (14.44%) Information Security
13 61 (12.95%) Product Vision
14 60 (12.74%) Computer Science
14 60 (12.74%) Decision-Making
15 55 (11.68%) User Stories
16 54 (11.46%) Coaching
16 54 (11.46%) Project Management
17 53 (11.25%) Business Development
18 49 (10.40%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.34%) Python
2 36 (7.64%) SQL
3 29 (6.16%) Java
4 17 (3.61%) Go
5 14 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.76%) Bash
7 4 (0.85%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 106 (22.51%) Degree
2 49 (10.40%) Master's Degree
3 47 (9.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (6.79%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.25%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.91%) MBA
8 8 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.49%) PMP
10 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.64%) CISM
11 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 3 (0.64%) CSPO
11 3 (0.64%) HNC
12 2 (0.42%) CITP
13 1 (0.21%) CFA
13 1 (0.21%) CRISC
13 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.94%) QA
2 21 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.61%) NIST
5 15 (3.18%) NCSC
6 6 (1.27%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.06%) IFRS
7 5 (1.06%) SLA
8 4 (0.85%) GDPR
8 4 (0.85%) PMO
8 4 (0.85%) SEPA
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.42%) COREP
10 2 (0.42%) FINREP
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (3.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.64%) vSphere
3 2 (0.42%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (3.82%) Kubernetes
1 18 (3.82%) Terraform
2 13 (2.76%) Ansible
2 13 (2.76%) Argo
2 13 (2.76%) Kustomize
2 13 (2.76%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.94%) Google
3 19 (4.03%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.40%) Databricks
5 12 (2.55%) Dell
5 12 (2.55%) SAP
6 11 (2.34%) NVIDIA
7 6 (1.27%) Foundry
7 6 (1.27%) Oracle
7 6 (1.27%) Zoho
8 5 (1.06%) Adobe
9 4 (0.85%) Sage
9 4 (0.85%) YouTube
10 3 (0.64%) Apple
10 3 (0.64%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.64%) CQG
10 3 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.64%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.64%) Reuters
10 3 (0.64%) Tenable